Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

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30 years old · died October 17, 2018 · Louisiana

A man, 30, died on October 17, 2018, in a parish jail, in the custody of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. The department lists the death in its yearly death data, which does not give names, and gives the cause as an accident, based on the autopsy report.

Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections recorded the manner of death as accident.

Reported by: Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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